Because it's French?

You made me look it up, and I was shocked to learn peepholes weren’t invented until 1949! But they must have had some earlier version of them prior to that time since Wizard of Oz was released in 1939.

Speaking of Leo DiCaprio and casting switches, he was apparently also PT Anderson’s first choice for Boogie Nights... which I just CANNOT see. Leo was already committed to Titanic at the time, and so he turned it down and recommended his friend and former co-star Mark Wahlberg. Which means that if Jeremy Sisto had…

Diaphragms were invented in the Victorian era and were in common use by Americans in the 1930s.

The switchboard is repetitive work in a dark, windowless, subterranean room where the women all have an inch’s worth of elbow room. Being in “the show,” aside from giving them access to sunlight and human interaction, signifies that a person meets certain standards of beauty, poise, knowledge, and interpersonal skills…

The fortune teller’s last line wasn’t spooky, just a description of Midge onstage —she often performs in black cocktail dresses. The entire fortune —speaking at a microphone, surrounded by adoration— was a vision of Midge’s comedic success, it’s only Rose that chose to misinterpret it as predictive of a wedding.

It’s so specific, you just know it’s accurate.

That’s probably a more accurate phrasing, but I still suspect she’s a bitch beyond the threshold of respectable bitchiness. More a mean girl than a badass.

It doesn’t sound like she’s looking for a couture dress, just a custom one. All couture pieces are custom, but not all custom is couture.

Based on some blind items, I think she’s very possibly a mean girl in sweetheart’s clothing a la Julia Roberts, so maybe she’s actually been dating on her level this whole time.

Yeah, but Kathy Griffin’s call outs on that subject should be taken with a mountain of salt. She called out Don Cheadle of all people for not supporting her after the Trump head photo, and their only connection —according to Cheadle at least— is having chatted about politics on an airplane once. She seems to think…

Publicity. Clout. Bragging rights.

At age 5, Michael only played bongos for the group. Papa Joe felt he was too young to do anything else, and Jermaine was the original lead singer. It wasn’t until later, at around age 8 or so, which is admittedly still young, that Michael began singing lead, at which point he was still trading off with Jermaine. It’s…

“OMG bish your boobs are huge are you pregnant?” is absolutely a thing I have said to multiple friends. The answer is always yes.

Again,

Okay, so I think that Bran’s Three-Eyed Raven warg download during “Hold The Door” is the accidental catalyst for everything. During that scene, there’s a quick flashback to the Mad King screaming, “Burn them all!”— the moment which led Jaime to stab him in the back. I think that much in the same way Bran’s warging…

Pedantry is a great way to miss the point. At no point have these regulations been even close to stringent enough to justify the level of paranoid hoarding that ensues. Particularly since these spikes tend to result in increased sales of hunting rifles and handguns whereas regulations tackle military-style assault…

Not to mention, it’s the 50th anniversary this year. There are certain milestones at which pop culture starts to revisit itself, whether consciously or not.

Surprised no one’s posted this yet.

Of all the 90s scandals, this is one of the few (aside from Amy Fisher) that I followed in detail from the beginning. I distinctly remember one of my summer camp bunkmates who lived in Virginia showing us a newspaper clipping of this insane local story about a woman who cut off her husband’s penis and tossed it out a…